"Brooks R. Robinson" wrote: > > At this point I _may_ have screwed up the install, but I'm going to > tell it > as I did it. There is a script that runs called 'discover' that does it's > hardware detection. The file is attached. Basically, it runs through > everything is /lib/modules/<kernal_ver>/ and tries to load it into the > kernel. How slick is that!?!
i wouldn't want my distro to do that..randomly trying to insert drivers can cause lockups pretty easily i think(ive tried it before myself and got it sometimes) > I suspected that it wasn't going to get it right, well, because it's > VMWare, and chose SVGA, jumped through a bunch of hoops and it didn't work. > I ran through this twice (there was no option for plain VGA), so I told it > to skip it. Well, it complained a lot and said it wasn't going to finish > until it had done it's graphical bit. i haven't seen news on it recently but last i heard VMWARE does NOT support xfree4 in the guest OS, and from what i saw progeny comes with X 4. i suspect if you can find xfree 3 debs for progeny/woody it would work. of course be sure to download the VMWare driver from vmware's site as well.. > Having manually edited /etc/network/interfaces, I'm going. Still no > X. Oh > well, this has been an adventure in nothing. I've also attached the output > of 'dpkg -l' to show what packages it thinks it needs out of the box. > Someone may find it interesting. could be worse, last time i tried to install corel linux second edition the installer loaded great -- in 320x200 (or some really small resolution) the installer didn't have virtual X scrolling so it was *impossible* to find the buttons to click on since they were not on the screen, corel linux 1.0 worked great though. as for X, try to use the 16color VGA driver i bet it will work, even though you'll be locked into 640x480 :) if solaris 7 works in vmware(it is unsupported) im sure progeny can work without too much hacking :) nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
